I attended an international event yesterday, where pizzas were ordered, and an American person decided that giving a 2,000 yen tip to the pizza guy was a good idea. The pizza guy looked totally confused as the tip-giver couldn’t speak any real Japanese. A Japanese woman reluctantly had to intervene as the embarrassment on both sides grew.
KEEP YOUR TIPPING STATE-SIDE! We don’t want it here!
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Thanks for the tip
Americans are weird
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Ah yes because America is the only place that tips
Hell no! No tipping here! Yen is already too weak
I recall an article about a Japanese guy who was so impressed by America’s tipping system and thought, “This is the best thing ever! We should bring it to Japan!” So he tried advocating the tipping system here and how it would benefit both the consumers and restaurant industry. Don’t think the guy got far because I haven’t heard about him in a while.
In other words, as an American please keep the tipping in the USA. I don’t want to start having to worry about it here, too.
I had a waitress from Komeda Coffee in Hakodate a month ago chase us for 3 blocks because we left a single yen coin on the table accidentally. In the 36 degree summer heat. ONE. YEN.
I’ve never felt so guilty in my life.
I agree. Don’t tip.
What does tipping add anyway? I guess the thought is that “this person worked hard therefore they should get *more* money than usual”. But as with all good ideas once they are institutionalized, the thought changes. Now tips are “if we don’t get tips we can’t live” or “you need to work as hard as possible otherwise no money for you”.
Best not to start and just give people decent wages and make the job pleasant so they want to do it.
Jesus people are acting like the dude is the devil fucking incarnate. I’m sure he was just trying to be kind. Ignorant? Yes, but not doing anything in bad faith. I’m sure he’s learned a new lesson about the country. People are allowed to make mistakes and look like an idiot. I’m sure the delivery person and their ancestors haven’t all taken offence at the act. Calm down people it’s Sunday morning lol.
Yeah keep your shady tipping practices away from here. We prefer a decent hourly wage and not slavery depending on tips to survive
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Calm down. Tipping occurs in certain ways in certain sectors. In the cases I have in mind it is usually referred to as cha-dai or ko-hi-dai. This is especially so where manual labour is happening and the worker is thus assumed to be made thirsty.
It’s totally normal and the workers will say “no” while taking it happily.
Some of you need to touch grass and/or work a few different jobs before you start making generalizations. Sure, English teachers and recruiters don’t take tips–but there is more going on here than that.
I can’t upvote this enough. Tipping culture is a disease.
Thread makes me want to start tipping. And I’m not even American.
Would be better to post in Japan Travel, me thinks.
On a related note, I saw a group trying to get tipping culture in Japan and I instantly started seething. They make it out like it’s good for the average worker but we all know the slippery slope it can lead to.
Japanese here. I bet most of us gladly receive tips if you give them to us when no one is around. Japanese salary is so miserable nowadays many people are struggling to make ends meet, even more so for food employees.
Mandatory tipping culture is toxic, customers shouldn’t have to pay an employee”s wage, every country outside of America is doing it right lol
Can I still tip my fedora though?
What’s a service charge if not a tip
Why the anger?
A regular patron (Japanese) of a steak restaurant I worked at here once left such a large tip, all of the staff – dishwasher me included walked home that night with something like 6,000 yen in our pockets.
Oh no, a person thought someone did an exceptional job and paid extra. The entire Japanese civilization is going to come crashing down due to this event. Pack it up, literally, pack up Shibuya, pack up all the sexy men at the clubs, pack up the Ghibli museum, it’s over. The entire Japanese cultural universe is about to implode on itself due to a 2000 yen tip.
Some restaurants and cafes in Tokyo have jars for tips. Maybe it’s not common or customary, but it’s not like people legitimately get uncomfortable from it.
You sound like one of those foreigners/expats that feels the need to be the arbiter of “culture”, in a culture you aren’t a part of.
They need to remove the tipping prompt from Uber Eats too. I won’t use that app because I feel weird not entering a tip when asked. I don’t know if the staff gets paid at all if I don’t, so I just Demaecan and pay their fixed delivery fee instead.
A person accustomed to the need to tip as a necessary part of service worker compensation so the service worker can make ends meet gives a tip to a service worker.
Person on reddit WOW HOW DARE YOU
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yeah like it’s not the norm in Japan, but the person was trying to be considerate and apparently was open to being informed otherwise so like what is the problem
Tipping is accepted but not expected here. I always tip cab drivers, although not much. They like it. And I like that they like it.
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